Pictures below

I can't get the pictures below to work right with the text. So please, use your imagination.

Went to a meeting tonight. Slept all day.

Not much new here.

Use your imagination.

Patrick

Old caving pictures

Some Pictures of Scott Cobel and myself in Maple Grove cave.

Here I am in a small hole that leads down to a

small second level. I'm waist deep in water on

this second level.

Unfortunatly this is a muddy cave. This would

be a really pretty formation if it weren't for all

the mud.

In the background is Scott ducking under some low passage

and wading in knee deep water.

In the foreground is the same formation shown above.

Here are some stalactites. I think the white around them is

calcite. You can't see in this picture but they are joined to the

ceiling by a very small stem of calcite.

Here is a closeup of the stem of calcite.

Scott on the other end of one of the most decorated parts

of the cave.

Scott entering one of the rooms in the cave.

It is moderatly decorated. Very faintly you can

see the "giant boobie" in the background.

Here I am posing next to "The Giant Boobie".

This is a very poor picture of some "cave bacon".

In this area of the cave there were many seeds

in the muddy pit that had sprouted, living off

the endosperm sugars of the seed until they

can create their own food via photosynthesis.

Unfortunatly these little guys will never see the sun.

These are a couple of strange speleotherms on

the ceiling. I think they were formed by water

lapping against the ceiling here, but don't know.

Update

Here's a quick update on everything happening...
Joe'l is doing fine with her health problems. She seems to be getting better all the time. We go back to the doctor in a few weeks to see if there has been measurable progress. She is going to an Allergist tomorrow to have allergy tests ran to better point at what she needs to avoid.

Bella is fine, she is really a great kid. She is learning and singing all sorts of songs. She is really outgoing, she doesn't meet a stranger. She frequently walks up to people at restaurants and talks to them (something she picked up from her Grand-dad).

Grand-dad seems to be better after his bout with a kidney stone. It seems to be that time of year, we're seeing lots more than normal in the ER's.

Mum-mum Shirley is signing for an apartment in Scottsburg later today. She recently flew home and drove her fathers van back. She made it without getting lost (that she will admit) and we are all surprised, but glad she's home.

I went caving for the first time in months on Saturday. It was a nice 2000ft cave I had never been to before. Another one that isn't but a few miles from our house. The very beginning was a large room that had reportedly held dances with a band and all sometime in the past. There were old lighting fixtures attached to the ceiling, concrete strairs leading down from the surface and everything. The next part of the cave was a 50' belly-crawl, not my favorite thing, but only 50 feet. It squeezed down to (reportedly) 10-1/2". I know my belly was on the ground, my helmet off being pushed in front of me and my back was against the ceiling at the same time. That's pretty tight!

School starts August 20th. I have mixed emotions.

I'm working more at Paoli now and less at Monroe, I don't know if there is a reason for this or not...????

There's the quick version. I'll try to get some copies of the pics that were taken in the cave and post some on here.

Patrick